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Subject: Mai Po early morning on the 16th of April [Print This Page]

Author: Ronaldo Time: 16/04/2013 23:40 Subject: Mai Po early morning on the 16th of April

Visit to the scrape very early morning yielded the following birds (may be an id confirmation would be needed)

Pintail/Swinhoe Snipe 1
Oriental Pratincole x12+
Little Curlew x3 (?)
Oriental Plover x1 (?)
record shots of the curlews and plover for validation of the identity

Image Attachment: Birds1.jpg (16/04/2013 23:40, 123.22 KB) / Download count 446
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/attachment.php?aid=14617

Image Attachment: Bird2.jpg (16/04/2013 23:40, 84.17 KB) / Download count 434
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/attachment.php?aid=14618

Image Attachment: Plover1.jpg (16/04/2013 23:40, 163.38 KB) / Download count 457
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/attachment.php?aid=14619

Author: HKBWS Tung Time: 17/04/2013 11:05

Both look good to me for the Little Curlew and the plover. Congratulations!

Author: Ronaldo Time: 17/04/2013 16:04

Thanks a lot Tung.
Interested to know if the other plovers seen on Sunday are still there... That was the only Oriental Plover in Pond 16-17 yesterday morning.
Probably the Curlews did an express passage, they were there for 10 minutes feeding at around 7.15am. They came from the left (south-west?) - when I was in Hide 1) and left to the right (north-east?).

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